'UK roads not safe enough'
A great deal more could be done to improve the safety of Britain's roads, a lobby group has said.
In response to a Department for Transport (DfT) announcement that deaths on UK roads fell below the 3,000 mark in 2007, the Association of British Drivers (ABD) said government road safety policy should put more focus on aspects of dangerous road use on the part of all road users.
The group added a decline in road deaths is mostly down to increased car safety and credit should be given to vehicle manufacturers rather than the government.
ABD Chairman Brian Gregory said: "The DfT cannot claim any responsibility for this reduction. For decades they have resisted advice to improve road user training and to tackle dangerous driving, recklessness and car theft."
He went on to say that while the government has pursed "futile" safety policies, manufacturers have quietly got on with the job of ensuring their cars have become safer.
Last week, police in Suffolk announced they seized 623 vehicles driven by uninsured drivers in the first four months of this year. 
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